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Miracle on Chapel Street

Miracle on Chapel Street

All things, even ancient and enduring ones, eventually perish. Old Heidelberg, the city’s oldest restaurant and bar when it closed in 1991 after an astonishing 234 years, was one more...

Miracle on Chapel Street

All things, even ancient and enduring ones, eventually perish. Old Heidelberg, the city’s oldest restaurant and bar when it closed in 1991 after an astonishing 234 years, was one more...

Super Bowl

Super Bowl

Before what was then the world’s largest stadium could open with the big Yale-Harvard game of 1914, it had to be built. Building the Yale Bowl meant solving an enormous...

Super Bowl

Before what was then the world’s largest stadium could open with the big Yale-Harvard game of 1914, it had to be built. Building the Yale Bowl meant solving an enormous...

Turning Pages

Turning Pages

Published 15 years after the tercentenary for which it was commissioned, Rollin G. Osterweis’s Three Centuries of New Haven (1953)—which you can access at local libraries or buy from indie...

Turning Pages

Published 15 years after the tercentenary for which it was commissioned, Rollin G. Osterweis’s Three Centuries of New Haven (1953)—which you can access at local libraries or buy from indie...

Horror Movie

Horror Movie

Almost 100 years to the day after its Hollywood premiere on October 30, 1921, The Sheik is getting a centenary Blu-ray. Cinephiles in general may remember the movie for cementing...

Horror Movie

Almost 100 years to the day after its Hollywood premiere on October 30, 1921, The Sheik is getting a centenary Blu-ray. Cinephiles in general may remember the movie for cementing...

Trials and Errors

Trials and Errors

It’s fun today to don a pointy black hat and play at being a witch for Halloween. But things were decidedly less amusing for those who came off as witches...

Trials and Errors

It’s fun today to don a pointy black hat and play at being a witch for Halloween. But things were decidedly less amusing for those who came off as witches...

Battle Lines

Battle Lines

Early in the American Revolution, General George Washington had a 14th colony in mind: Canada. He also had a trusted subordinate eager to test that idea: Colonel Benedict Arnold of...

Battle Lines

Early in the American Revolution, General George Washington had a 14th colony in mind: Canada. He also had a trusted subordinate eager to test that idea: Colonel Benedict Arnold of...